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June 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“They are not professional and never intended to be professional, they
just want to crush me.”
In November, the Beijing tax bureau issued a bill for 15 million yuan (£1.5
million) in alleged back taxes, giving the artist 15 days to pay it or hand
over an 8.45-million-yuan guarantee.
Ai was able to pay the guarantee – needed by law to challenge the charge –
thanks to a wave of donations from supporters. In April, lawyers for Fake
filed a lawsuit against the tax bureau, which is being heard later on
Wednesday.
“They (police) have made clear their decision – they said ‘if you try to
get to court, you will never get there’,” Ai, who had planned to attend
proceedings, told AFP.
He said his wife Lu Qing, who is Fake’s legal representative, will be
attending.
Ai was released on bail on June 22, 2011, and barred from leaving Beijing for
one year. This restriction expires on Friday, but it remains unclear whether
he will be allowed to travel out of the capital.
The artist – named the world’s most powerful art figure by influential British
magazine Art Review last year – is renowned for his political activism,
which has repeatedly angered the ruling Communist Party.
He riled authorities with his investigation into the collapse of schools in
the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and into a 2010 fire at a Shanghai high-rise
that killed dozens.
Source: AFP
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